Heinrich Blümner

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Heinrich Blümner around 1804, oil painting by Anton Graff

Heinrich Blümner (born October 18, 1765 in Leipzig ; † February 13, 1839 there ) was a German lawyer and patron .

Life

Heinrich Blümner was the son of the Leipzig Kreishauptmann Johann Gottfried Blümner (1724-1798). After attending the Nikolaischule he studied philosophy and law at the Leipzig University from 1782 to 1788 . He completed his studies with the doctorate to Dr. jur. from. He then worked at the Leipzig Higher Court .

In 1794 he became a member of the city council and was appointed city ​​judge in 1804 , city ​​architect in 1810 and proconsul in 1828. As a city judge, he took part in the Saxon assembly of estates as a representative of Leipzig in 1807 and took on important functions in the state parliament from 1820.

From 1802 he was a member of the Gewandhaus concert management and from 1803 editor of the Leipzig literary newspaper .

Very enthusiastic about the theater, he maintained a lovers' stage in his house on Universitätsstrasse and also wrote his own plays. In 1818 he published a treatise on the history of the theater in Leipzig, after he had initiated the renovation and reopening of the Old Theater in 1817 as a theater of the city of Leipzig with Karl Theodor Küstner (1784–1864) and Leipzig merchants and became its inspector.

Heinrich Blümner was also the head of the Leipzig Council Library for many years , which was renamed the Leipzig City Library in 1832.

In 1798 he had inherited the manor and castle Großzschocher with the associated Windorf as well as a share in the manor and castle Frohburg from his father . In 1801 he left the latter to his brother Ernst Blümner (1779–1815). When Heinrich Blümner widowed and died childless in 1839, he bequeathed Großzschocher to his two nieces Laura and Minna, both daughters of his sister Caroline Gruner († 1853). Minna was the wife of the Saxon State Minister Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1801–1882).

Patronage

In his will, which he wrote on February 29, 1832, he provided for the following assignments, which came into effect after his death:

  • 4000 thalers for the poor institution,
  • 2000 Taler, two oil paintings and a silver chalice for the Großzschocher Church,
  • 3000 thalers for the poor in the villages of Großzschocher and Windorf,
  • 20,000 thalers to the King of Saxony, which he used to found the Leipzig Conservatory of Music ,
  • over 7,300 volumes of his private book collection to the Leipzig City Library,
  • 500 thalers for the theater pension institution with interest to be paid annually (addendum of August 19, 1833)

Appreciation

The Blümnerstraße in Leipzig's district Schleußig was named in 1896 after him.

Works

  • Heinrich Blümner, Die Dorffeyer: A play with singing in one act; For the prologue to the highest birthday of our most gracious father , 1790
  • Heinrich Blümner, draft of a literature on criminal law , Grieshammer, Leipzig 1794 (reprint: Keip-Verlag, Goldbach, 1996, ISBN 3-8051-0314-X )
  • Heinrich Blümner, History of the Theater in Leipzig - from its first traces to the most recent times , Leipzig 1818 (reprint: Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratie Republik, Leipzig 1979)
  • Heinrich Blümner (Ed.), Land and committee regulations of the Kingdom of Saxony from 1728 and general district council regulations from 1821 - with additions , Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1828

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Axel wing: Bourgeois manors: social change and political reform in Electoral Saxony (1618-1844) . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35681-1 , p. 158
  2. ^ A b Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 38 .
  3. ^ History of the Leipzig Municipal Libraries. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Leipzig Lexicon
  5. ↑ Leipzig biography .
personal data
SURNAME Blümner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and patron
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1839
Place of death Leipzig